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Description: Featured is Força Aérea Portuguesa's Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon 4626, ex-US Navy BuNo 37406, Lockheed c/n 15-1272. The FAP operated 42 PV-2s and PV-2D's under MDAP (Mutual Defense Assistance Program) from 1952 on in Portugal and its colonies in Africa where they were serving in a variety of rules. The FAP went into Portugals colonial war already before the first two regular battalions of the Portuguese Army were disembarked in Luanda, on 1 May 1961. Reaching back on three already obsolete PV-2 Harpoon liaison and patrol aircraft, equipped as make-shift bombers (and later formed into Esquadra 91), and P2V-5 Neptunes, the FAP flew a number of attack sorties against various rebel concentrations. Throughout the COIN war, which ended in 25 April 1974 by a coup d'état in Portugal, the Harpoon played a significant role. The end of the war marked the end of the Harpoon era in Portugal. Model by The Harpoon Project team (Milton Shupe, Tom Falley, Matt Wynn, Scott Thomas, and Nigel Richards) at SOH. Repaint by Maarten Brouwer.
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